• How to Set Up a Search Engine-Friendly Site Maintenance Page

    Updated: 2012-02-03 12:55:36
    Smiley Cat Weblog Web design thoughts and . commentary Home About Portfolio Elements of Design Contact 03 Feb 2012 How to Set Up a Search Engine-Friendly Site Maintenance Page I found this SEO moz post on setting up a search engine-friendly website maintenance page to be very useful , especially as I have a significant website redesign launch coming . up In the past I've left this aspect of website management in the hands of my network administrator , but who knows if they are aware of the pitfalls of sending the wrong signals to the search engines when your site is down for maintenance . At least now I'll be able to ask the right questions as we approach launch . time This leads me to a broader question . As the infrastructure behind a website grows increasingly complex , how much

  • Growing Popularity Of Offshore Web Development

    Updated: 2012-01-30 07:24:41
    The idea of outsourcing has gained significant momentum due to the reason that it helps in driving down business costs. And the most common aspects is offshore web development that has become an important part of big organizations because it doesn’t involve management of in-house team.

  • Essence Of Having Virtual Server And Their Management

    Updated: 2012-01-30 07:24:40
    Servers are deemed to be the foundation stone for most of the business organizations. Unsurprisingly, no business can flourish without a powerful support of servers that back a business. Nevertheless, there are many businesses these days that are not picking physical servers and are rather choosing to go with virtualization of their servers.

  • Google Penalizes Traffic to Above-the-Fold Ad Heavy Sites

    Updated: 2012-01-20 17:21:43
    Home About Jobs Resources Contact Google Penalizes Traffic to Above-the-Fold Ad Heavy Sites Home Google SEO 20 01 2012 Google traffic is set to crash for ad heavy websites with low content above the fold as per a new  Page layout Google algorithm change If visitors need to scroll down to find your content , you can be sure the new Google alogrithm will reduce your site . traffic Page Layout Google Update The earlier Google Panda update was said to significantly affect Google search engine rankings for websites with high ad to content ratio . This saw many webmasters reduce the number of ads , remove low quality thin content and generate a high content-ad ratio . What this new Google update does is target sites where large ads dominate above the fold area , which has high visibility , needs

  • Are Error Messages Getting Too Cute For Their Own Good

    Updated: 2012-01-20 04:45:01
    Smiley Cat Weblog Web design thoughts and . commentary Home About Portfolio Elements of Design Contact 19 Jan 2012 Are Error Messages Getting Too Cute For Their Own Good I enjoyed this post by Golden Krishna on the Cooper blog about how error messages are becoming increasingly less useful in helping you identify what has gone . wrong Fortunately , some suggestions on writing good error messages are included towards the end , including this one from . UXmatters Posted on : January 19, 2012 2 Comments Recent Entries in Usability When Features are Commoditized its the User Experience that Counts Reduce Bounce Rate by Making a Landing Page More Like a Landing Page Elegant Advanced Search Implementation 2 Comments Posted Add Yours I couldn't agree more with this I really hate seeing cutesy

  • WordPress Security Tips For Web Designing

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:22
    Author: Kabir Bedi The popularity of Wordpress is still soaring among web designers and developers because it is very convenient to customize word press CMS in to a feature rich sophisticated website. Website security has been of top priority while the design and development of a new site. Most of the content management systems have inherent security loopholes which can be eliminated by deeper insight and knowledge on the side of the web designer.

  • Business to Business (b2b) Content Management Systems (CMS)

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:21
    Author: elegantmicroweb Business-to-Business (B2B) is a term used to define business transactions between businesses. An example of a b to b business might be a manufacturer that only sells to a wholesaler, or a wholesale business that sells to a retail business. In other words, the b2b business does not sell directly to the consumer.

  • Essence Of Maintaining A Website Using SEO

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:21
    Author: Maneet Puri Search Engine Optimization or SEO is recognized as the best way that can be used smartly for increasing the website popularity over the WWW by improving the website ranking. This further supports the idea of beefing up the amount of visitors which a website gets otherwise. Therefore to ensure effective search engine optimization of your website, maintaining your website is of utmost importance.

  • 10 Recent Google Algorithm Changes You Need to Know to Improve Your Ranking

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:20
    Author: Courtney Mills Any time there is an update to Google''s search algorithm its big news. Our readers work themselves into a fluster speculating what aspects have changed and the impact it will have on their website''s ranking.

  • Importance Of Using MultiMedia Elements In Web Designing

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:19
    Author: Kabir Bedi Web designing is all about creativity. It is an art that involves amalgamation of wacky ideas and catchy element with a coat of simplicity. Text, graphics, animation, video and sound effects can be added to the website to make it more appealing and captivating. However, not all business owners love to integrate these elements in a website. The business owners for whom adding a creative touch is all matters, generally go with website enriched with multimedia elements. These multimedia ingredients are added to this online platter to add that innovative, outstanding tinge to the website which is just a piece of text otherwise.

  • Google Update Increases Search Freshness

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:18
    Author: Rene Google search results will now be "fresher" after the search giant released changes to its algorithm recently. The update, which seeks to build on the Caffeine web indexing system, has said to be affecting approximately 35% of all search queries. For example, if you search for "upcoming Brooklyn theater shows" Google understands that the search results should not include shows from last year.

  • Basic Website Design Facts For Small Businesses

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:17
    Author: Ethan Dao Significance of owning a website Every business organization, be it small or mighty, it need a means of promoting their business and beefing up sales. But the indelible fact is that big enterprises have enough resources of publicizing their business, incorporating the best channels and media. What about the small businesses that operate on a small scale and cannot invest huge amounts?

  • Intriguing Facts About Open Source Web Development

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:16
    Author: Kabir Bedi The way businesses were operated, managed and handled has changed dramatically today. The reason behind this is the revolution new-flanged technologies have brought to varying sectors. Surely, IT is not an exception. No matter it is a grocery purchase, apparels shopping or a business transaction, everything is done over the Internet. And it is due to this that most of the web service providers have altered their service rendering strategies.

  • Social Media Optimization A Great Way Of Popularizing Brand

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:15
    Author: Ethan Dao The business of owning a website is on the rise. There are multiple methods and ways that are being brought into affect by the big or small business houses in order to popularize the websites globally they are owning. And for this, varied strategies were designed and SEO is the most common that have been used by people for quite a long time.

  • Warning Signs of Bad SEO - Who Can You Trust?

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:14
    Author: Nick Ker Can SEO Companies and Consultants Be Trusted? We get a lot of inquiries about search engine optimization services from people who have been "burned" by bad SEO and are understandably cautious about working with another search engine marketing company or SEO consultant.

  • Interesting Facts About Website Designing

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:13
    Author: Maneet Puri A website loaded with informative content and catchy graphics is the need of today. Recognized as an effective means of business promotion, a website is owned by most of the business owners today to publicize their products and services.

  • Blogging - How the Heck Can It Take So Long?

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:12
    Author: Enzo F. Cesario Blogging has this image of being something that''s quick, easy and casual. The savvy blogger is surfing the Internet, comes across the news story of the day, and dashes off an indignant commentary on the topic, his scathing wit flowing from dancing fingers into the ether of the web, going up within mere moments for all to see and appreciate.

  • Why SEO in All the Right Places Doesn't Cut It Anymore

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:19:11
    Author: Jill Whalen When I teach my SEO classes, I begin by telling the students all the things that SEO isn''t. I''ve always felt that it was important because they''re often expecting to hear some secret formula for SEO success. And why wouldn''t they, with all the myths and outright wrong/bad information that constantly swirls through the SEOsphere? When I finish telling them that everything they thought was SEO really isn''t, they stare at me with their mouths hanging open.

  • How a Proactive Pop Up Increased Online Chats by Over 200%

    Updated: 2012-01-15 00:57:13
    Smiley Cat Weblog Web design thoughts and . commentary Home About Portfolio Elements of Design Contact 14 Jan 2012 How a Proactive Pop Up Increased Online Chats by Over 200 A few months ago I updated the live chat tool for one of the websites I manage so that it would proactively pop up after a visitor had been on the site for a couple of minutes and had viewed several pages . The pop-up is pretty intrusive which concerned me from a user experience standpoint , but I thought I would try it out . anyway Here's how the chat popup looks you can't navigate the site without closing : it We've now been running the proactive for four months , and the increase in the number of online chats it has generated is quite : substantial Month Increase in of chats September 2011 433 October 2011 211

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